Stage names

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Stage names

Posted: 11/5/03 at 9:43pm

Here are some interesting name changes :P

Elvis Costello =Declan Patrick McManus
-Cary Grant =Archibald Leach
-Lauren Bacall =Betty Joan Perske
-Winona Ryder =Winona Laura Horowitz
-the original Michael Douglas had to change it to Michael Keaton

#2

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 9:50pm

Here ya go...

http://www.famousfolk.com/

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#3

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 10:04pm

and I thought it was what would be my stage name.
I have one already

John Colt Stephens

#4

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 10:25pm

Kim Hunter was born Janet Cole.

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 10:30pm

coool site pgrant:P

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 11:44pm

Judy Garland was born Francis Gumm and was one of the "
Gumm Sisters" till they decided to change their name to Garland.

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 11:50pm

Tovah Feldshuh was originally Terri Sue Feldshuh.

k.d. lang was originally Kathi Dawne Lang (I'm assuming she once dotted her 'i' with a heart)

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#8

Stage names

Posted: 11/5/03 at 11:50pm

Do designers usually change their names. If they do, I do not want to. I should be proud of my name.

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#9

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 11:52pm

i had no idea there was an i and an e in kathi and dawne

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#10

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Posted: 11/5/03 at 11:58pm

Well, Okay, officially it WAS 'Cathy Dawn'.

But in theory she may have had some friends who signed her yearbook that way. And when she saw it, said "yeecccch", and became k. d. from that point on.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 12:00am

Cathy Dawn, what's that flower you have on?

I was thinking of taking the name Fynsworth Dollypoop for my stage name, but then I realized that that was cowardly. So Namo H. Cam it shall remain.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 12:44am

i wouldn't worry about it, bway. i know of a sound designer named mike nichols. i think the actors unions seem to work on a first come first serve basis, but usa is a bit more lenient i think.

all that said, i shall henceforth be known as zebulon aloysius gilhooley.

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#13

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 3:05am

Namo, have I told you lately that I love you? (And why do I suddenly feel as though there's a county song coming on?)

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#14

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 5:20am

Ethel Zimmerman -- became Ethel Merman after Irving Berlin told her "never change the way you sing; but you could do something about your name."

... or perhaps it was G. Gershwin who said it. Nevertheless ....

Interestingly enough, Bob Dylan's real last name was also Zimmerman.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 3:08pm

Irving Berlin wasn't his real name anyway...it was changed from Israel something or other.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 3:16pm

Alexandra Zuck became Sandra Dee. This just about gets the All-Time Worst Name Before a Change award.

Except maybe Marion Morrison who turned into John Wayne.

Barbara Streisand became Barbra ("Just make sure you spell my name wrong.") Streisand so that everyone who she grew up with would know it was her when she became a star.

Mildred Plotka became...
Esther Blodgett became...

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 3:18pm

Ashton Kutcher's name is Christopher.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 3:20pm

It's cool to see all of these people have stage names. Does their family still call them by their real names?

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 4:29pm

i think Frank SInatra also had a different name. but i cant remember whut it was

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 4:39pm

I know of an actor who changed his name for the stage and now only wants to be referred to by that new name--even by his family.

My stage name is my full name, which I started going by after high school. There was a guy in hs who had my same first and last name. I kept getting called into the principal's office cuz of stuff he did. "But, I don't have a car--I'm a freshman!"

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 4:44pm

Sinatras real name was Sinatrone.

Italian-Americans were very prone to stage names: Tony Bennett was Anthony Benedetto, Anne Bancroft was Anna Marie Italiano, Don Ameche was Donato Amici.

William Gaxton was either Italian or Mexican. His name was Arturo Antonio Gaxiola.

God bless Jane Krakowski.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 4:47pm

yea thats it, i thought thats what it was

#23

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 5:19pm

Bernadette Peters is really Bernadette Lazzara (Her mother didn't want her being type cast in only Italian roles).

Stockard Channing is Susan Stockard.

Not a name change, but who doesn't love pointless trivia......Bette Midler was named after Bette (pronounced Betty) Davis; but her mom didn't realize it was supposed to be pronounced as Betty. lol So it's Bette; but you can call her Miss. M

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 6:20pm

(Slapping head in 'I coulda hada V-8' style): Of course! Bernadette. How could I have forgotten. Her moms theory is interesting, but I somehow doubt Bernadette would get typecast as she's the creamiest-complexioned Siciliana I've ever seen. :)

42nd STREETS composer Harry Warren was Salvatore Anthony Guaragna. Harold Arlen was Hymen Arluck. Irving Berlin was Israhel Bailine.

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Posted: 11/6/03 at 7:33pm

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